The indexes of multifactor productivity for two-digit manufacturing sectors prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for sectors in manufacturing have been revised and extended to cover the 1949–92 period. These indexes, also called the “KLEMS” multifactor measures, compare changes in output to changes in a composite of all the inputs used in production—capital, labor, energy inputs, nonenerg...

This paper takes the eastern China as an example, the relationship between environmental pollution and economic development is analyzed, and then the breakthroughs in the development path of EKC turning point are sought. Furthermore, the paper uses the environmental data of the eastern China from 1996 to 2007, with GDP per capita as an economic development index, and with volume of industrial w...

Nowadays, towns and villages usually try to get funds for community constructions by following empirical rules. It is not possible to predict the effectiveness. And in the previous researches related to community development, there is no decision support model built using mathematical planning for fund allocation. This study obtains index weights for community industrial development by applying...

This paper puts health questions within the context of national development and industrial policy. It follows the idea of structuralist, Marxist and Schumpeterian approaches, in which industry and innovations form determining factors for the dynamism in capitalist economies and relative positions within the world economy. All countries that have developed and started to compete under better con...

This study aims to measure how much the industrial sector suppresses the development process to be sustainable in Iran. We employ a quadratic-log form of regression model to test the Industrial Environmental Kuznets Hypothesis. In addition, we use a Vector Auto-Regressive model to estimate the nexus among the industrial growth, income inequality, environmental pollution, and energy consumption ...

introduction: burden of hiv and aids is considerably different among regions and countries of the world. the aim of this study was to assess of inequality in the prevalence of hiv, according to human development index among countries of the world.methods: in this study the desired outcome was prevalence of hiv, which estimated in 100 countries in 2012. the annual report of unaids was used for p...

the literature show evidence that small manufacturing enterprises (smes) are understood as main source of technology development and employment creation. at the same time they are vulnerable to a number of restrictions such as access to finances, skilled labor and public support, while are exposed to high competition and suffer from low survival rate. this research aims to shed lights on the ro...